CONTENTS.
 

CHAPTEE   I.

Manhattan Island. —Earliest Records of America. —The Icelanders. - The Fifteenth Cen-
turj'. —Venetian Commerce. — Christoplier Columbus.—England. —TheCabots. —The
Portuguese.—Vasco da Gama.—The Fishermen of Brittany and Normandj'.—New¬
foundland. — The Spaniards. —Verrazano Estevan Gomez. —The English Again. —The
Dutcli.—Belgium. — Usselincx and Jolin of Bameveld.—Tlie East and West India
Companies............■       .        .       1!

CHAPTER   II.

Htiiry Hudson.—His Voyages. —He discovers Manhattan Island.—His Voyage up the

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-Th(   "     ""    '
- Building of a Ship at 'Manhattan. — Descriptio
'  "           "    ■        and Dress.—Money and

CHAPTER   III.

— New Netherland. —New

ion in Holland. — John of'.
prisonment of Grotius. — The West India Company. — The Amsterdam Chamber. — The
""     " ■ '        ""     " "    ■    '.—Death of the Prince of "              -.-..,

The First Governor of Nei

CHAPTER   IV.

gs.—The Horse-Mill.—'

ipondence. — The Emhass^
erland not a Pecuniary Success. —The Charter of Freedom "and Exemptio
„._i.i   r.^j,      t7.-t;.„,  ir...  "-josselaer. — The  Van E".....'

and RecaU. — Wranglii

CHAPTER   V.

i^'ries. —Van Twiller and
e First Minister. — The
ings and Improvements.

_th the English.—Quarr.............„ .„...........      ^„...

1 the English. — Fort Amsterdam. — Excess and Irregularities.—Purchase of
Land—Governor Van Twiller's Recall.........6f

CHAPTER   VI.

Governor William Kieft. — The Extraoi-dinaiy Council. — Abuses. — Proclamations. — The
Dominie's Wedding. — A Curious Slander Case. — The First Ferry to Long Island. — En¬
croachments of the Swedes. — A New Policy. — Captain De Vries's Arrival. — The Pioneer
Settlers. — Oloff Stevensen Van Cortlandt. — English Ambition. — Captain De Vries's